Ellington Financial acquires and manages mortgage-related, consumer-related, corporate-related, and other financial assets. Co.'s targeted asset classes include investments in the U.S. and Europe (as applicable) in the following categories: residential mortgage loans, including mortgage loans that are not deemed to be qualified mortgage loans under the rules of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, residential transition loans and non-performing and re-performing residential mortgage loans; residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS); and RMBS backed by U.S. residential mortgage loans and RMBS backed by European residential mortgage loans. The EFC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the EFC YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether EFC YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the EFC YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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